O meglio, Vigata era una città immaginaria che grazie alla fiction Il commissario Montalbano è entrata a far parte del nostro immaginario ed è quindi reale. We walk along Via Atenea to the Santo Spirito Library where Montalbano finds the book that helps him understand the mystery of the Terracotta Dog On the trail of Inspector Montalbano. Montalbano’s Sicily is South West Sicily. The original Montalbano books, by Andrea Camilleri, are set in fictional locations. We will go to the beach to an area called “Pisciotto” where there is a former brick factory in which several scenes of Montalbano were filmed.
Half day Mainly, the series takes place in the South of Sicily. Since 1999, RAI has been producing a television series based on the novels, called in Italian, Il commissario Montalbano. Croce Camerina and on to the Donnafugata Castle where several scenes were shot. The excursion continues with the visit to Punta Secca from S. When things are getting particularly serious, Montalbano is summoned to meet his boss at the regional police HQ in the fictional town of “Montelusa”. If you have a favourite Montalbano novel let us know and we will arrange a custom tour for you.
Visit the filming locations of the popular Italian TV series ‘Inspector Montalbano’ (or ‘Commissario Montelbano’ in Italian) on this full-day tour, departing from either Taormina or Messina province. The tour starts in the city centre of Montelusa (Agrigento): here we find the Commissioner's office (Questura)and Piazza San Francesco, the place where the very idea of Vigata came to Camilleri's mind. Bridget McGrouther visited for a taste of the TV detective's enviable lifestyle. Salvo Montalbano and the other members of Vigata's small police force. On demand we can provide English speaking driver/ guide and/or licensed tour guide. Discovering Sicily is the only incoming tour operator specialized in Sicily that can offer you a tour of Montalbano’s with a stay in the famous House of the Commissioner. On the opposite side is the particularistic "southern" culture with complex webs of relationships that affect the way things are done. Vigata è stata fondata nella finzione dei romanzi di Andrea Camilleri ed è diventata di pietra e barocco in provincia di Ragusa, nel sud est della Sicilia.
This Montalbano Food Tour will take you around the places of the famous TV series of Montalbano, discovering baroque beauties, scenes of the film, and Sicilian food! The series is shot almost entirely in the Sicilian city of Ragusa and surrounding towns.
There is the "northern" force, coming from Rome, Milan that attempts to standardize regulations and increase transparency. Of course, Vigata is a figment of the author, Andrea Camilleri’s, imagination, but it is based on his own home town of Porto Empedocle, further to the west of Sicily. Here, the local mayor’s office was also turned into the room of the police commissioner of Montelusa, the fictional province in Camilleri’s books. In 2012 Rai 1 broadcast a prequel series Il giovane Montalbano (The Young Montalbano), starring Michele Riondino as Montalbano.